RE: The cosmic regional block
January 21, 2018 at 6:02 am
(This post was last modified: January 21, 2018 at 6:41 am by WinterHold.)
(January 20, 2018 at 1:57 pm)SaStrike Wrote: Because as you said, it's a concept.
A pretty easy MADE UP concept. No one is claiming it exists somewhere (in reality, not the wacky "outisde our reality/universe "logic") nor that they've counted to infinity.
As far as I know, it's pretty essential even for finite computations.
(January 21, 2018 at 2:00 am)AFTT47 Wrote: Maybe this isn't strictly scientific but the track record has been that it's a bad bet to go with human intuition over the math. Indeed the further we go, the least reality seems to conform to human intuition (or common sense). The deeper we probe, the less the hard-wired common sense seems to apply. It shouldn't be surprising, really. Our day-to-day existence doesn't involve the macro scale of the entire universe or the tiny scale of the quanta. Why should we expect either to conform to what we experience routinely at our scale?
As to the OP however, this disconnect shouldn't be seen as a license to invoke everything from pixies to demons to gods. Why would you do that? It's an argument from ignorance and it's invalid.
It's true that there is a shitload we don't know but there is also plenty we do know. What we don't know cannot contradict what we do know. And what we do know exposes primitive beliefs in primitive superstitions like the Abrahamic religions in a very poor light. They are child-like in light of our current knowledge.
They are even childlike in our philosophy. An angry, vengeful god? How silly. Even we very limited humans can see how childish such negative emotions are even as we struggle to overcome them with our limited intellect. A God who cannot overcome them? Please. Why would we have any respect for such a being even it did exist? So much more powerful and intelligent and knowledgeable than us but making even less progress than we are in growing up?
Come back when you have something better.
If I wanted to represent the strange facts happening in the quantum world; I would directly and straightforwardly mention that it rings a very strong bell concerning the idea of different dimension.
Actually we just became "able" to see another dimensions, that's the quantum world in a nutshell.
If that is true, then why is God and the idea of him existing be strange?
It is an argument from ignorance. Nobody claims to have seen God or demons or angels. That's why the "design" is stressed on to be the motive behind the belief: everybody is ignorant; to be honest. Investigating the design though leads to belief in God.
I would say that the design is enforcing itself; that's why I think about God. "Rings a bell".
You hate religion because you see the ugly face of many of the religious in it. Many people are nasty, from Catholics to Jews to Sunni/Shiite Muslims; their actions are nasty and their logic is nastier. Focus on them; and their logic becomes what you remember when God is mentioned.
Nothing is wrong with the idea of God; but everything is wrong with the ideas of the religious institution.
